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I’ve been working on a project recently where I’m going to be performance testing a new environment. As always in projects, timescales can be compressed due to issue and delays. I’ve worked on automating the performance testing piece so that this can be completed unattended and in a faster space of time. We need to …
I’ve recently finished working on the latest release of PowerScale with some really large changes that were requested during the Webinar last week. If you didn’t catch it please head over to CUCG and take a look at the webinar recording. We covered alot of config and setup as well as advanced configuration options and …
There was a bit of a stir on Twitter last week about how Citrix don’t provide a method for consultants or technical enthusiasts to learn about Citrix Cloud post the 30 day trial. Martin Therkelsen had the idea of a few of us grouping together to get a shared tenancy similar to the Citrix CTP’s, …
With the rise of Windows Virtual Desktop I wanted to do a bit of preliminary testing on the obvious thing that’s going to matter, is RDP good enough? We all know WVD will be based on a number of different Microsoft Windows Desktop/Server OSes but what we don’t know, is if there will be additional …
I was doing some load testing and needed to also connect to a Parallels RAS hosted desktop. This can be ahieved by installing the RAS client on your LoginVSI Launcher and editing the connection string as follows in the Management console: 1C:\Program Files\Parallels\Client\TSClient.exe s!='{Server}’ t!=’443′ m!=’2′ r! u!='{Username}@{Domain}’ q!='{Password}’ a!=’#1′ The full syntax for the …
I’m working on a project at the moment where I need to generate alot of email content for a test users mailbox. I’ve written a script for this and thought it might be useful to others. I’ve uploaded it to Github and embedded it here. This script takes publicly available open license content in the …
Evening all, I’ve recently had discussions around people needing to estimate how much storage may be needed for Outlook OST cache for User Profile Disks. I decided to knock up a quick script to achieve this. The script I’ve written to do this only requires powershell 3.0 or above, you must have a login for …
In my last blog post about LoginPi I covered the full installation and configuration of the product. In this next instalment I want to cover how to add custom workload actions and a few simple tweaks that can add to help troubleshooting workload items. Assuming you have followed the previous post, you should have LoginPi …